Galleries
- PIRATE Gallery on 500px
- PIRATE's early days, showing PIRATE in its old enclosure
Status
| Current status |
See the PIRATE News page. |
| Pre-2009 status updates: |
|
| October 2008 |
New remote power switch
added |
| August 2008 |
Remote operations
enabled,
commissioning underway |
| July 2008 |
Hardware upgrade:
rewiring,
installation of remote switches and webcam |
| April 2008 |
Main local software
installation concluded; await minor hardware improvements before web access control is installed |
| March 2008 |
PIRATE had first light,
with
pointing, autofocus, tracking and autoguiding in place. A number of frames were taken (see photogallery). |